TyskJohan's random thoughts

Creating a PDF with XML Publisher without using files

TyskJohan — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:23:33 +0000

public void xdoPdf(
	oracle.apps.fnd.common.AppsContext	appsContext,
	String								datatemplateName,
	String								templateName,
	java.util.Properties				params,
{

	java.sql.Connection conn;
	conn = appsContext.getJDBCConnection();

	java.io.InputStream datatemplate = null;

	java.sql.Blob blob = null;

	java.sql.CallableStatement stmt =
		conn.prepareCall(
			"select file_data from xdo_lobs where lob_code = :1 and lob_type = :2");
	stmt.setString(1, datatemplateName);
	stmt.setString(2, "DATA_TEMPLATE");

	stmt.execute();

	java.sql.ResultSet rs = stmt.getResultSet();

	rs.next();

	blob = rs.getBlob(1);
	datatemplate = blob.getBinaryStream();
	stmt.close();

	oracle.apps.xdo.dataengine.DataProcessor dataProcessor = new DataProcessor();

	dataProcessor.setDataTemplate(datatemplate);

	ArrayList parameters;

	parameters = dataProcessor.getParameters();

	for (Iterator it = parameters.iterator(); it.hasNext();)
	{
		Parameter p = (Parameter) it.next();

		if (params.get(p.getName()) != null)
		{
			p.setValue(params.get(p.getName()));
		}
	}

	dataProcessor.setParameters(parameters);

	ByteArrayOutputStream dataOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

	ByteArrayInputStream dataIn;

	dataProcessor.setConnection(conn);
	dataProcessor.setOutput(dataOut);

	dataProcessor.processData();

	dataIn = new ByteArrayInputStream(dataOut.toByteArray());

	blob = null;

	java.io.InputStream template = null;

	CallableStatement stmt =
		conn.prepareCall(
			"select file_data from xdo_lobs where lob_code = :1 and lob_type = :2");
	stmt.setString(1, templateName);
	stmt.setString(2, "TEMPLATE");

	stmt.execute();

	ResultSet rs = stmt.getResultSet();

	rs.next();

	blob = rs.getBlob(1);
	template = blob.getBinaryStream();
	stmt.close();

	ByteArrayOutputStream pdfOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

	ByteArrayInputStream pdfIn;

	oracle.apps.xdo.template.FOProcessor processor = new FOProcessor();

	processor.setTemplate(template);
	processor.setConfig(new Properties());
	processor.setData(dataIn);
	processor.setOutput(pdfOut);
	processor.setOutputFormat(FOProcessor.FORMAT_PDF);

	processor.generate();

	pdfIn = new ByteArrayInputStream(pdfOut.toByteArray());
}

When adapcctl.sh restart won’t do

TyskJohan — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:44:01 +0000

Sometimes, when you’ve rolled out new pages to the Application server and use adapcctl.sh restart, the web server won’t respond at all any more.

This is usually caused by a hanging fcgi process. Find the port number in $IAS_APACHE_HOME/Apache/Apache/logs/error_log* and use netstat -p -l | grep to find the culprit.

If that works, but JSP’s still aren’t showing, you have a hanging Jserv. More on that later.

Disclaimer
Any Oracle-related tips are meant for development environments, not production.

10 ting å forbedre i kollektivtrafikken

TyskJohan — Thu, 03 May 2007 06:21:39 +0000

Siden det nå er store endringer likevel, og hele jernbanetorget er gravd opp, tenkte jeg at jeg legger dette ut selv hvis jeg ikke har 10 punkt enda.

Fler avganger på linje 34 og 54 i rushen: Her er det altid fullt fra Oslo S og oppover Iladalen.
De nye t-bane-vognene har ikke plass til ski: Oslo sporveier har sikkert tenkt at dette ikke er et problem siden det er gamle vogner som går til Frognerseteren. Men hva med Sognsvann m.fl.
Mere beinplass: Hvorfor skal det være slik at det for meg som er 192 cm lang bare finnes 8 (av over 40) sitteplasser som er mulige å sitte på på de nye bussene?

Dealing with Comment Spam

TyskJohan — Thu, 03 May 2007 06:19:02 +0000

After the ham-to-spam ration in my comments reached 100:1 I decided something needed to be done. I didn’t want CAPTCHA, so I installed Bad Behaviour and a new http:BL plugin, and things got much better!

(The 100 spam per real comment never really showed, of course: Akismet caught them. But they were still creating unnecessary load.)

Vi har köpt lägenhet i Oslo

TyskJohan — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:25:24 +0000

…och alla är hjärtligt välkomna att hjälpa till med renoveringen!

Igitt!

TyskJohan — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:57:36 +0000

Yesterday night, someone placed a half-eaten hamburger in our mailbox. Sheesh.

Crash, boom, bang

TyskJohan — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:15:26 +0000

Uh. It seems MySQL has botched the main data file for one of my pet projects, the Bologna Process web site.

There wasn’t much there anyway, but it’s still sad. I need to find an automatic backup option, I guess. And I didn’t really like TextPattern anyway. I think I’d rather go to using WordPress as a CMS, and hack a call to the built-in backup into every write or edit.

Et pepperkakehus

TyskJohan — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:09:44 +0000

Dette pepperkakehuset er nå stilt ut på Nasjonalgalleriet…

Sie haben mich nicht genommen…

TyskJohan — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:02:11 +0000

Beim mündlichen Auswahlverfahren für den höheren Auswärtigen Dienst bin ich leider nicht genommen worden. Aber das Auswahlverfahren an sich war auch ganz interessant…

Ihr Ergebnis des schrftlichen
Auswahlverfahrens:

DGP-Test: 121,76 (von 130)

Fachtest Allgemeinwissen: 6,00 (von 25)

Fachtest Recht: 12,00 (von 25)

Fachtest VWL: 13,00 (von 25)

Fachtest Politik/Geschichte: 8,00 (von 25)

Summe Fachtests: 39,00 (von 100)

Sprachtest Englich: 62,50 (von 70)

Sprachtest Zweitsprache*: 60,00 (von 70)

Aufsatz Note: 3,00 (Noten 1-6, wie Schulnoten)

* Französisch

In-flight Internet access

TyskJohan — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:41:40 +0000

On my way to Chicago for Accenture training in St. Charles. In-flight Internet access is great, and I can’t understand my Connexion (the Boeing subsidiary that runs this) is going out of business.

Part of the reason might be that I seem to be the only one using it — there’s good bandwidth anyway.

Technorati tags: Connexion, Boeing, in-flight internet
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Alt er Enoksens feil

TyskJohan — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:43:57 +0000

Neppe.

Under overskiften Strømkrisen kunne ha vært unngått skriver VG m.fl. idag:

Olje- og energiminister Odd Roger Enoksen har visst i lang tid at strømkrisen ville komme. Likevel har han ikke grepet inn når Norge har solgt to milliarder kilowattimer til utlandet.

Enoksen innrømmer at han ikke har gjort nok for å unngå strømkrisen.
- Vi visste at strømkrisen ville komme og gjorde ikke nok, sier Enoksen til Aftenposten.

VG

Tror VG at “vi” refererer til Enoksen selv og hans familie? Neppe. Han mener regjeringen, både den nåværende og de tidligere.

Technorati tags: VG, Enoksen, strømkrise, energikrise
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Technorati vs. Knuff

TyskJohan — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:08:58 +0000

I was just fiddling a bit more with my MoreSimpleTags WordPress plugin that supports several services (Technorati and Knuff, in my case). I noted in one of my previous posts that the letter ä wasn’t coming out right.

It turns out Technorati and Knuff expect non 7-bit characters encoded differently: Knuff wants them in ISO-8859-1 URI encoding like this vinbär [http://bloggar.se/om/vinb%E4r] while Technorati prefers them URI encoded UTF8, like vinbär [http://technorati.com/tag/vinb%C3%A4r].

D'oh.

Update

Seems I was a bit hasty or not paying attention. Both work with UTF-8. So the code is now urlencode(utf8_encode(html_entity_decode(trim($tag)))).

Update #2

Ok, I snug a utf8_decode in there for good measure too. Turns out part of the problem is that Knuff won’t eat accented characters (which is a bit weird because they are quite common in last names in Sweden).

Technorati tags: Technorati, utf8, utf-8, ISO-8859-1, knuff, knuff.se, tagging
Taggar på Bloggar.se: Technorati, utf8, utf-8, ISO-8859-1, knuff, knuff.se, tagging

Was Bologna alles kann!

TyskJohan — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:50:30 +0000

Die Zeit berichtet über ein neues Informationssystem an der Uni Hamburg, Stine, über das man sich zum Beispiel Rückmelden und Immatrikulieren kann. Nach den langen Schlangen, die ich an manchen Unis in Deutschland gesehen habe, kann ich da nur sagen: endlich (oder vielleicht Äntligen!).

Aber nur ein paar Zeilen weiter muß ich mich schon wieder tierisch ärgern:

Ein System, das vorschreiben will, welchen Kurs man belegen soll, klingt nach Einschränkung der Wahlfreiheit. Schließlich konnte man bisher fast immer mit dem Prof reden, wenn man im Grundstudium bereits ein Hauptseminar besuchen wollte. Oder wenn man sich für ein Seminar nicht angemeldet hatte und in der dritten Semesterwoche doch dafür entschied. Das neue System lässt nicht so leicht mit sich verhandeln. Das aber liegt am System der neuen Studiengänge Bachelor und Master und nicht am Computersystem selbst.

“Stine kann nichts für Flexibilitätsbeschneidungen - die Software setzt lediglich die Bologna-Anforderungen um”, so Thorsten Hönisch vom Hamburger Asta.
(ZEIT Campus)

Wo in den Bologna-Dokumenten steht bitte, das man unflexibel zu sein hat? Sowohl der AStA-Mensch als auch die Journalistin nehmen das jedenfalls ohne Nachfrage hin.

Vielleicht ist es doch an der Zeit, meine Info-Seite zum Bologna-Prozess irgendwie in die Gänge zu bringen.

Technorati tags: Bologna Process, Bolognaprozess, Uni Hamburg, Stine
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Saft

TyskJohan — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:04:53 +0000

Idag har jeg laget ripssaft. Godt!

Technorati tags: rips, saft, ripssaft, vinbär, redcurrant
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Ah, ma Normandie…

TyskJohan — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:55:20 +0000

Photo by Christer Almqvist taken from Regnéville.net

Technorati tags: Regnéville, Normandie, Cotentin, Manche
Taggar på Bloggar.se: Regnéville, Normandie, Cotentin, Manche

DGP-Test:	121,76	(von 130)
Fachtest Allgemeinwissen:	6,00	(von 25)
Fachtest Recht:	12,00	(von 25)
Fachtest VWL:	13,00	(von 25)
Fachtest Politik/Geschichte:	8,00	(von 25)
Summe Fachtests:	39,00	(von 100)
Sprachtest Englich:	62,50	(von 70)
Sprachtest Zweitsprache*:	60,00	(von 70)
Aufsatz Note:	3,00	(Noten 1-6, wie Schulnoten)